Have you got wet feet? If you're using a shared web or blog template, and that includes most of the inexpensive templates as well, then the chances are you are leaking link juice straight out throught the bottom of your site - throught the footers that is. Free or cheap templates are not really free or cheap. Sure, they don't cost you in dollar terms and if they do, they don't cost a lot. However, look at some of the download statistics and do some maths.

Back on July 3, I posted " Search and Community Track at SES San Jose: NACA's Save The Dream Tour ." The story resonated with many of the readers of this Search Marketing News Blog, because it generated 75 tweets over the following 24 hours. Well, I want to update you on the story as it unfolds. As Jeff Maynor of WKYC-TV, Channel 3 in Cleveland, reports, thousands turned out for NACA's Save the Dream event. Accordiing to Maynor,

There are more reports of a pending deal between Yahoo! and Microsoft although there seems to be a blurring of the exact nature of the deal. Will it be a search deal or a search advertising deal? Perhaps both? Bing has been somewhat of a hit since its release, however, until more reliable statistics surface it is hard to know if the extra traffic has been at the expense of Google or Yahoo!. If it is from Yahoo! then a deal is understandable. Let's face it,

"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone." I admit reading or rather scanning the "confidential" Twitter documents obtained by Techcrunch from a hacker and published in excerpts . Of course I was curious. On the other hand: Was this whole Techcrunch Twitter hacked scandal worth it? Are we wiser now? Has humanity gained some new insights? Did Techcrunch prevent a corrupt president from breaking the law?

I tend to be somewhat cynical toward Google because I generally do not trust authorities and they CAN and DO kill many web based businesses that are too reliant on search. But to offset such posts I figured it would be cool to do a counter post on reasons to love Google They pushed search. Back when search was unprofitable they believed in making it better rather than being at least 80% as good as the next portal. Search was eventually going to become big no matter what,

Google SMS text chat is back in Gmail after being knocked out for three weeks. The experimental feature in the Gmail Chat menu, which lets users send text messages from their computers to their contacts' mobile phones, went out for users June 24 around 3 p.m. PDT and had been down for the count since. I can't prove it, but evidence strongly suggests the outage was due to the roll-out of Google Voice to more invitees June 25 , or just a day after SMS chat went down in Gmail.

Much of what constitutes a well-architected webpage is never displayed in the page itself. The contents of the tag are what you see in a browser. But a webpage consists of two major elements, the tag only being one. The content of the tag (and for that matter, the document type declaration (DTD), which precedes the tag in the page's code, is just as important for search engine optimization (SEO).

by Mike Krumboltz Nothing moves the Buzz needle like money. Some of the biggest stories from the week included a jaw-dropping contract for everyone's favorite metrosexual and intense interest in what Supreme Court justices earn (spoiler alert: not as much as you might think). Grab your checkbooks and check out those stories and more with the Buzz Week in Review. It's time to ask Seacrest for a loan Have you been biding your time,